Maurice Falcon, Cpa, Mba Email & Phone Number

Highland Park, Illinois, United States

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Instrumental in aligning pricing with project performance and improving labor costs by leveraging investments in new financial systems. Responsibilities include implementation of strategic business plans, educating non-financial and financial staff in performance analysis and improvement, managing the capital request and budgeting processes, supervising staff, communicating risk and opportunity assessments, creating annual budget, reporting actual results, developing pricing strategy, guiding resource needs.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Drove new business unit to achieve financial success by guiding operational and commercial teams to exceed aggressive revenue objectives of over 400% while maintaining margin targets. Responsibilities include directing the implementation of strategic business plans, supervising staff of five, reporting risks and opportunity assessments, creating rolling forecasts and annual budget, reporting actual results, developing pricing strategy, guiding resource needs.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

FP&A Manager responsible for managing end to end costs for Cold Cuts (NR $1.5B) and Lunchables (NR $0.7B) categories. Responsibilities included supervising staff, creating annual plan, risk/opportunity profiles, and reporting results.Margin Improvement – continuously organized cross-functional teams to generate ideas on improving current margins and reduce costs to offset rising commodity prices. This resulted in implementing numerous productivity projects ($4.2M) to align new product margins with line averages.Network Optimization – financial lead on team to implement standardized E2E manufacturing network optimization procedures at Kraft Foods. As result of SAP implementation, Kraft realized the potential of financial data available to management. My cost and benefit guidance allowed the team to effectively sell the project to the executive team.Financial leader in new product launches – created new standard at Oscar Mayer for new product financial decision making by involving each function in their respected piece of financial impact. It led to a great new product launching with financial margins in line with existing products.Strategy – created cost comparison of major competitors to guide pricing strategy and assess competitive advantage. This enables the business unit to become much more competitive and ultimately win in the marketplace. Technology driven results – early adopter of new technologies (SAP, Essbase, etc.) to drive business results by proactively providing opportunities for cost reduction and guiding future manufacturing capabilities for Kraft. Continuously analyzed E2E financial results from six manufacturing locations and worked with leadership team to optimize sourcing strategies.

Northfield, Il

FP&A Manager responsible for managing end to end costs for Mac & Cheese (NR $0.6B)•Developed lowest cost manufacturing strategy by reducing $3.0M in annual cost. By investing $9.0M in capital, the company realized positive annual cash flow that resulted in IRR in excess of 50%. This investment directly led to the category significantly exceeding productivity targets.•Redefined role by automating processes and becoming effective business partner to the category in making financial decisions.

Northfield, Il

Led financial planning process for the Meals Division.

Northfield, Il

In charge of Hyperion/Essbase Variable Cost planning, reporting, and analysis systems for Kraft Foods North America Operations.

Skokie, Il

Supervised and trained two staff accountants while running audit engagements for mid size manufacturing companies in food and steel industries.

Mba, Finance

Ba, Public Accounting

Computer Science

Computer Science